Ephemeral Screen Printed Ice Decorates a Room at Sweden’s Ice Hotel

Posted By Lori Zimmer On January 18, 2013 @ 11:45 am In Architecture,Art,carousel showcase,Eco Tourism,gallery | No Comments

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Each year, Sweden’s famous Ice Hotel ^[6] invites artists from around the world to submit proposals to design their very own rooms within the snow hotel ^[7]. This year, artists Eszter Augustine-Sziksz ^[8] and Nikkila Carroll transformed a room into a vision of ephemeral beauty ^[9], aptly named ILLUMINATED. The pair brought their unique screenprints on ice to the hotel, creating stained glass windows that will disappear with the Spring sun.

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Lit with blue glowing LED lights ^[11], Sziksz and Carroll’s designs are backlight by the sun during the day. Scattered across an arched wall, Sziksz’s screen prints act as tiny port holes. Each is made up of a smooth circular piece of ice, cut with a chainsaw from the nearby river. The artist then prepares each of the ice discs by ironing them, gently melting them to a flat surface which will receive ink in a continuous tone.

Once prepared, the ice discs are then screen printed with Sziksz’s imagery- finger prints, vintage portraits and silhouettes are temporarily attached to the frozen pieces. In the freezing temperature of the hotel ^[12], the screen printed ice will last the season, but once the weather warms up, each artwork will melt away.

To coincide with the dream-like feeling of the ice circles, the team designed a three dimensional cloud mural for the walls of the room. Using a projector, the clouds were carved from the packed snow, surrounding the glowing ice bed. A faux-window was carved on the opposite wall, overlooking a cloudscape that is illuminated with blue light projections.

The ILLUMINATED room continues the Ice Hotel ^[13]‘s tradition of creating a fantastical winter experience, fusing art, design and the beauty of snow architecture.

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[6] Ice Hotel: http://www.icehotel.com/

[7] snow hotel: http://inhabitat.com/quebecs-hotel-de-glace-is-a-sculpted-winter-wonderland-escape-made-of-ice-and-snow/

[8] Eszter Augustine-Sziksz: http://esztersziksz.blogspot.com

[9] ephemeral beauty: http://inhabitat.com/javier-riera-illuminates-the-landscape-with-ephemeral-geometric-light-projections/

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[11] glowing LED lights: http://inhabitat.com/datagrove-is-a-vibrant-led-illuminated-interactive-installation-of-whispering-branches-in-california/

[12] freezing temperature of the hotel: http://inhabitat.com/new-post-submission-2246/

[13] Ice Hotel: http://inhabitat.com/photos-inhabitat-spends-the-night-in-quebecs-hotel-de-glace-made-entirely-from-ice/

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